Mar

7

Bussard’s EMC2 Fusion Contracts Extended

March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment

News is out there is a contract extensions and modification for EMC2 Fusion, the theory and work of Robert Bussard, that is working to develop Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion.  The news was first seen at Talk Polywell and quickly picked up by Brian Wang at NextBigFuture. The latest news is an ongoing research project [...]

Mar

5

Oil In a Fight With Itself

March 5, 2012 | 3 Comments

The renewable fuel producers are about to up the pressure on the world oil industry, and for consumers it’s not a moment too soon. First off, South Dakota’s government has approved a subsidy of 20 cents per gallon for ethanol plants to transition over to butanol.  The cap for the subsidy is $4 million per [...]

Feb

24

Big Oil Invests In Biofuel

February 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

Al Fin led Thursday with a post on CoolPlanet Energy along with GreenCarCongress all seeming to be based from a press release handled at BusinessWire. The points for this post are a look at the investors and the biofuel technology.  Big Oil is very interested with some serious money now loaded into CoolPlanet.  At the [...]

Feb

15

An Elegant Answer to the US Biofuel Challenge

February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments

Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from corn, now well past the E-10 or 10% blend share and looking to get to 15% and much more E-85 (85%) sales plus various ratios in [...]

Jan

31

Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 | 3 Comments

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

Jan

23

Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

January 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

Jan

19

Political Insolence For the Entire World to See

January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

Today the U.S. President’s State Department issued its decision denying the Keystone XL Pipeline application. Your shocked, humbled and deeply embarrassed writer apologizes to the whole of Canada, in particular those who have risked and worked, invested and managed the development of their resources and willingness to work with us to benefit from them. The [...]

Jan

17

Rossi E-Cat Destined For Underwriters Laboratory

January 17, 2012 | 13 Comments

Andrea Rossi, the inventor and energy behind the E-Cat was interviewed by Gary Hendershot and Sterling Allan for the Smart Scarecrow Show last Saturday the 14th of January 2012.  The headline remark was Mr. Rossi has sent prototypes to the Underwriters Laboratories (UL).  As best can be determined, that remark is in the past tense. [...]

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